The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

I like the world and the item variety, but find myself not having the patience these days for the necessary amount of blind exploration and trial and error. Great soundtrack.

The original Legend of Zelda may have had some fairly big, sprawling maps and secrets to explore back on the NES. What it did not have is this level of intricacy in how it fits to together. And, honestly, it wasn't this approachable, either. There's a certain art to gently guiding you along in a game with this much room for wandering and so many techniques to pick up along the way, and Nintendo set a strong example in how to do it.

Could this, the third Zelda and only the second in this overhead style, be the best Zelda game of all time? It's certainly in the conversation, with its perfectly designed world, great dungeons, terrific items, simply told story, well-balanced gameplay/challenge and lovely aesthetics (the main Dark World theme in particular remains one of my favorite VGM tracks of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sslj06K-Nlw ). Worth playing through in one long sitting!

I dig LttP's combat since there's a neat positional challenge in how attacks changes the position of both you and the enemy, not to mention the interesting tradeoffs in items. There's also a lot of cool stuff to find in the overworld and for as rote as it is I do like the novelty of SNES era JRPG towns with more action game controls. LttP isn't consistently great, the puzzles mostly suck and there are some bullshit parts like the caterpiller boss, but this is possibly the best Zelda.

Hot tip for this game and basically every game where you name your character. Type in "I'm gay" you'll thank me later after you recover from dying of laughter. Ho ho ho

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A massive improvement over the first game, especially in terms of difficulty and user friendliness.

A Link to the Past performs a masterclass in ideology. The famed Dark World isn't an alternate dimension; it is Hyrule stripped of its pastoral varnish. This parallax shift exposes the kingdom's rotting core, yet Nintendo domesticates the horror, framing it as a mere puzzle to be solved. Mute and expressionless, Link acts as an empty vessel interpellated by the Big Other. Through ritualistic gameplay, we do not simply save a world—we learn to enjoy our own subjugation. - Full Review

Yeah this is an ok game. I don't have a problem with the over head world and the gameplay of the character...My problem in this game is the map and a lack of focus of direction, things being difficult to find because it's simply not marked on the map to make it easier..If they had that I would give this game a lot higher.

Note: I played the GBA port, not the SNES version. It may well be one of my favourite entries of the Zelda franchise, with a very large world for the technological level of the consoles, lots of characters, enough side quests to be an entire good game by themselves... And the storyline is my favourite, although it's purely subjective.